Attorney Support Specialist

Latham & Watkins LLP

$75K — $90K *
Legal & Accounting
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • High school diploma or equivalent; Bachelor's degree preferred
  • Minimum three years of relevant experience in a legal or professional services environment
  • Strong professional communication skills to interact with attorneys, clients, vendors, and staff
  • Ability to work independently and in a team with a customer service focus
  • Proven capability to adapt to evolving technology platforms
  • Demonstrated ability to multi-task effectively

Responsibilities

  • Monitor lawyer time entries for compliance and proactively edit as needed
  • Generate, edit, and post client invoices adhering to firm and client standards
  • Gather preferences from attorneys to manage tasks like expense reimbursements and scheduling
  • Preserve confidentiality of sensitive firm and client information
  • Maintain and protect sensitive or proprietary information held by the firm

Benefits

  • Healthcare, life, and disability insurance
  • Generous 401k plan
  • At least 11 paid holidays and 23 days of PTO in the first year
  • Access to well-being programs including mental health services
  • Professional development programs available
  • Employee discounts offered
  • Participation in affinity groups and networks for support and community
Full Job Description
About the Role

The Attorney Support Specialist is an integral part of Latham’s Attorney Support team. This role will be responsible for directly assisting an assigned group of local attorneys in addition to providing global team support with a variety of administrative responsibilities, while assisting lawyers with client intake tasks such as processing conflicts of interest and new business intake forms. This role will be located in our New York office. Please note that this role will require in-office presence four days per week and one day remote.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

Other key responsibilities include:

  • Monitoring lawyer time entries for compliance with firm standards, while proactively editing entries, and alerting attorneys of any non-compliance
  • Generating, editing, and posting client invoices ensuring firm and client defined standards (Outside Counsel Guidelines) are met, while working with assigned lawyers to regularly manage their billing inventory, as applicable
  • Gathering and working to the preferences of assigned attorneys in order to execute tasks such as expense reimbursement, calendaring and scheduling, document management/edits, and travel arrangements
  • Preserving the confidentiality of firm and client protected information
  • Protecting and maintaining any highly sensitive, confidential, privileged, financial, and/or proprietary information that Latham & Watkins retains

We99d love to hear from you if you:

  • Display professional communication skills with the ability to interact effectively with attorneys, clients, vendors, and staff throughout the firm
  • Possess the initiative to work both independently and in a team environment with a customer service focus
  • Demonstrate the ability to multi-task and adapt to continuously evolving technology platforms

And have:

  • A high school diploma or equivalent; preferably a Bachelor99s degree or equivalent
  • A minimum of three (3) years of relevant experience in a legal or professional services environment, preferably
Benefits & Additional Information

Successful candidates will not only be provided with an outstanding career opportunity and welcoming environment, but will also be provided with a generous total compensation package with bonuses awarded in recognition of both individual and firm performance. Eligible employees can participate in Latham99s comprehensive benefit program which includes:

  • Healthcare, life and disability insurance
  • A generous 401k plan
  • At least 11 paid holidays per year, and a PTO program that accrues 23 days during the first year of employment and grows with tenure
  • Well-being programs (e.g. mental health services, mindfulness and resiliency, medical resources, well-being events, and more)
  • Professional development programs
  • Employee discounts
  • Affinity groups, networks, and coalitions for lawyers and staff

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Pay RangeUSD $75,000.00 - USD $90,000.00 /Yr.

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